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June 04, 2004

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Someone has way too much time on their hands...

Presenting:
Generic Names for Soft Drinks By County
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Via Big Sky Dave

...and what's the deal with that "soda" aberration right around St. Louis?

Posted by Nathan at 01:41 AM | Comments (3)
» Curmudgeonry links with: COKE? SODA? POP?
Comments

I would just like to point out, that all the major population centers (Top 6 cities) (Minus Chicago and Houston) agree with me:

Its Soda.
Stop calling it by other foolish names.

Posted by: Jeremy at June 4, 2004 09:08 AM

Yeah, but most of the major population centers also overwhelmingly vote Democrat and the three biggest (Chicago, New York, and LA) like and support Michael Moore. Do we really want to rely on their judgment for anything?

Posted by: nathan at June 4, 2004 09:19 AM

Heh. Both my parents came from "pop" country and my brother and I grew up in "soda" country -- yet we started out calling them "Cokes."

Even funnier: there we were in "soda" country and two retail chains came along in the late '70s selling nothing but soft drinks: The Pop Shoppe and The Pop Inn.

I generally don't use any kind of popular generic term for them anymore, but seeing as how I'm now in "Coke" country, I think I'll start calling them -- "pop."

Posted by: McGehee at June 5, 2004 04:57 AM
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